Alabama justices: Until U.S. Supreme Court rules, we’re in charge

[William769]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court has made itself an outlier in the judicial march legalizing same-sex marriages in the United States, drawing rebukes from gay rights advocates and evoking comparisons to Alabama’s defiance of federal authorities during the civil rights movement.

The court set up a showdown with a Mobile, Alabama, federal judge this week when it ordered officials in the state to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision later this year on whether gays and lesbians have a fundamental right to marry.

The Alabama ruling contradicts U.S. District Judge Callie “Ginny” Granade, who declared in January that Alabama’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution.

“Even as nationwide marriage equality is on the horizon, the Alabama Supreme Court is determined to be on the wrong side of history,” said Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Alabama wasn’t the first state where a federal trial or appeals court declared same-sex marriages legal, but the state justices made Alabama the only state to push back in advance of the U.S. Supreme Court settling the matter.

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/03/alabama-justices-until-u-s-supreme-court-rules-were-in-charge/

[RKP5637]

1. Alabama, always first to be last and then proven wrong. SOS as in the 60's. n/t

[Starry Messenger]

2. Time for the National Guard.

[RKP5637]

3. It's so sad, they always make the state look so ignorant. They really need to get out more

and see what a mockery they make of the state.

[William769]

4. I'd be willing to bet that if SCOTUS rules in our favor (keeping fingers crossed.

These asshats will go against them also.

[RKP5637]

6. My feeling is logically, SCOTUS will rule in our favor, but as you say, keeping

fingers crossed. My fear is they could rule in some type of layered nonsensical solution, than across the board for marriage in all states. Somehow, TPTB feel proud in Alabama when they are injurious to residents and others, they see it as a badge of honor as demonstrated in history.

[William769]

9. I thought about this.

"some type of layered nonsensical solution". I just don't see how they could pull it off.

[Fred Sanders]

5. SCOTUS has already ruled the ruling of Judge Granade stands until it rules. This is judicial treason

[Romeo.lima333]

7. alabamastan

[underpants]

8. alAbama

[Octafish]

10. How's Gov. Don Siegelman doing?

Guy was doing great things in Alabama. What happened?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Could the state judges be held in contempt?

I know the clerks could be charged with a misdemeanor for failure to carry out the duties of their office, but the state judges don't understand jurisdiction and the fact that they've been overruled.